Definition of Proglucagon. Meaning of Proglucagon. Synonyms of Proglucagon

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- Proglucagon is a protein that is cleaved from preproglucagon. Preproglucagon in humans is encoded by the GCG gene. Proglucagon is a precursor of glucagon...
- deriving from the tissue-specific posttranslational processing of the proglucagon peptide. It is produced and secreted by intestinal enteroendocrine L-cells...
- of insulin, which lowers extracellular glucose. It is produced from proglucagon, encoded by the GCG gene. The pancreas releases glucagon when the amount...
- synthesis facility. She arrived at MGH shortly after Joel Habener had cloned proglucagon by studying anglerfish found in Boston Harbor. Mojsov worked on the identification...
- immunoreactivity with glucagon. A half-century later, Brubaker and Drucker studied proglucagon gene expression, they discovered the function of enteroglucagon is related...
- proopiomelanocortin and they act together to process proinsulin and proglucagon in pancreatic islets. PC1/3 is an enzyme that performs the proteolytic...
- GLP-2 is created by specific post-translational proteolytic cleavage of proglucagon in a process that also liberates the related glucagon-like peptide-1...
- similar polypeptides (such as GLP1 and GLP2) all come (via PTM) from proglucagon, which comes from preproglucagon, which is the polypeptide that the GCG...
- the proglucagon-derived peptides, including endogenous GLP-1, glucagon-like peptide-2, glucagon, oxyntomodulin, glicentin and major proglucagon fragment...
- Habener. Drucker’s discoveries in Boston included the demonstration that proglucagon could be cleaved into multiple smaller glucagon-like peptides, including...